Talos: an interactive Web-enabled educational environment on mobile robot technology

Author

Athanasiou, S. ; Kouvaras, I. ; Poulakis, I. ; Kokorogiannis, A. ; Tsanakas, P. ; Koziris, N.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

387

Abstract

The Talos educational environment is an attempt to approach the constructionist theory of learning. Constructionism asserts that knowledge is not simply transmitted from teacher to student, but is actively constructed in the mind of the learner. Moreover, constructionism suggests that learners are particularly likely to create new ideas when they are actively engaged in making external artifacts that they can reflect upon and share with others. The presented system (Talos) deals with an interactive simulation environment for learning the principles of mobile robot operation and programming

Keywords

control engineering education; digital simulation; educational technology; information resources; interactive systems; mobile robots; robot programming; Talos; constructionism; external artifacts; idea creation; interactive Web-enabled educational environment; interactive simulation environment; learner active engagement; learning; mobile robot operation principles; mobile robot programming; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Educational robots; Educational technology; Mobile robots; Programming profession; Robot programming; Robot sensing systems; Telephony; Videos;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2000. MELECON 2000. 10th Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Lemesos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6290-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2000.880447

Filename

880447